QUICK REVIEW
Dec 07, 2023
The Realme GT 5 Pro, Realme's flagship GT phone, has launched in China. The hardware looks familiar to its not-so-distant cousin OnePlus 12.
The Realme GT 5 Pro packs Qualcomm’s flagship Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chip, a 5,400mAh battery with 100W fast wired and 50W wireless charging, and a BOE OLED screen that can go as high as 4,500 nits.
The Realme GT 5 Pro has a 6.78-inch “8T LTPO Pro-XDR” 1.5K (2780×1264 pixels) resolution display with up to 144Hz refresh rate and a whopping 4,500 nits of local peak brightness (1,600 nits global), sourced from BOE.
The panel can go as low as 0.5Hz. Dolby Atmos playback is supported natively, so is 2160Hz high-frequency PWM dimming.
Powering the GT 5 Pro is the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 paired with up to 16GB of LPDDR5x RAM and up to 1TB of UFS4.0 storage.
Running the show is Realme UI 5 based on Android 14 with a guarantee to get 3 major OS and 5 years of security updates from Realme.
Under the hood, the phone has a 5,400mAh battery with 100W fast wired and 50W wireless charging.
For photography, the GT 5 Pro has a trio of sensors on the back with a 50-megapixel Sony LYT-T808 primary sensor behind an optically stabilised lens (same as the OnePlus 12), 8-megapixel ultrawide, and another 50-megapixel Sony IMX890 sensor behind a periscope-style 3x telephoto.
On the front, the GT 5 Pro has a 32-megapixel selfie shooter.
Rounding off the package is a universal IR blaster control, enhanced NFC, X-axis linear motor, and Dolby Atmos dual speakers. The phone is rated IP64.
Even though the Realme GT 5 Pro has the potential to take on the OnePlus 12 and also give it a run for money, it's no threat to the 12 because of limited availability. The phone is only launching in China.